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“La proximité de cet homme”: a case of Victorian deconstruction?
I observe that the aim and method of a Victorian text within Shakespeare criticism overlaps significantly with Derridean deconstruction, which aims to overcome dualisms by attending to marginalized material, which must be ignored to justify the dualism. The Victorian author Charles Cowden Clarke defends examining minor characters from Shakespeare plays, in his 1863 book Shakespeare-Characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate. He suggests to me the aim of deconstructing the dichotomy between orderly classical genius and disorderly irregular English genius, by showing that there is an orderly structure to each play, but it requires attending to scenes with only minor characters as well.
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